Jessica (a sometimes-contributor to TLG) said The Diviners...or maybe the second Diviners. I had no idea what she was talking about, so I looked it up. These are novels by Libba Bray (whose name, I have to assume, is the result of someone drunkenly attempting to spell "Library") and upon looking at them once, I can't tell that they're meant to be funny. But they definitely gave Jess a chuckle.

Elisa said David Sedaris. I believe her, but I've managed to stay away from David Sedaris for all this time, I can't say I'm willing to pick him up now. Elisa also brought up Tina Fey which, well, we all know how I love her. Bossypants is a gem of a book.

The one that no one else has mentioned (but I will!) is Isaac Oliver's Intimacy Idiot. If you haven't picked it up yet, you need to do so. But maybe not in front of the kids. Unless you're a cool parent like that or something. But no, really, maybe not in front of the kids.

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Alan King. Alan King's book "Help I'm a prisoner in a Chinese Bakery." I laughed my ass off when I was a teenager. You have to read it realizing it was written in 1964. A good many jokes still hold. Also: Alan King's Matzo Balls for Breakfast.